A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a controversial Kansas law barring the state from contracting with supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement aimed at Israel over its ongoing treatment of the Palestinians.

On Tuesday, the ACLU filed a lawsuit on the behalf of Guadalupe Plascencia, a 60-year-old San Bernardino grandmother, who claims that she was jailed and detained by ICE in March despite the fact that she is a U.S. citizen.

On Tuesday night, the Department of Justice dropped its appeal to fight a court order that allowed two undocumented teenagers—known as Jane Roe (now determined to be 19 years old) and Jane Poe (17 years old)—who were held in immigration detention centers to get abortions. One is 10 weeks pregnant; the other is about…

The government already has lost one case for trying to block an undocumented teenager in federal custody from having an abortion. Now, officials are under fire again for the same rights violations, including forcing immigrants in custody who want an abortion to attend right–wing, religious, anti–abortion “counseling.”

Taylor Swift’s new album Reputation comes out on Friday, and Swift has kicked off her album release week by getting into a tiff with none other than the American Civil Liberties Union. (My god, 2017 is truly going off the rails.)

In the last week, we have seen a near-constantdeluge of sexual assault, abuse, and harassment allegations flooding the news now that Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s most powerful gatekeepers, has been toppled.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose approach to undocumented immigration is exceedingly cruel even by Republican standards, has found a new ideological battle to wage at a very personal level: preventing a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant from seeking an abortion.

For nearly a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has vehemently defended free speech, which includes protecting white nationalists’ First Amendment rights. On Saturday, however, the ACLU’s commitment to free speech was tested after it defended Unite the Right, a group of white nationalists who hosted the…

A high school junior in New York was detained for a month in an immigration jail for allegedly being seen with fellow students suspected of being members of the gang MS-13, according to a Monday report from WNYC.

When President Donald Trump visited Suffolk County, NY, last week, he did so in large part to tout the community’s ongoing campaign against the MS-13 gang—a message praised as “very important” by Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco in an interview on Monday’s Fox & Friends that Trump was quick to share.

In a historic legal development, victims of the CIA’s post–9/11 program of kidnapping “terror suspects” and holding them at secret locations throughout the world where they were horribly tortured will finally see a trial courtroom.

A green card-holding immigrant from China who has lived in New York for almost 20 years was arrested by immigration authorities and detained for over eight months without a bond hearing while he awaited deportation proceedings on nonviolent charges from five years previously, it emerged this week.